Senior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 91 86
Rank change year-on-year -103 -5 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 571 2,049 2,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.48% 2.89% 3.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 3.05% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 468 1,665 1,356
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -51 178 £65,000 - 180
North of England -128 137 £60,000 - 184
North West -128 83 £60,000 - 130
Midlands -71 78 £65,000 +8.33% 74
South West -50 75 £60,000 +4.35% 53
West Midlands -13 64 £65,000 +4.00% 54
Scotland +52 57 £57,500 - 22
Yorkshire -43 42 £55,000 - 36
East of England -26 26 £66,250 +10.42% 46
Wales -19 22 £65,000 +23.37% 27
East Midlands -37 14 £57,500 +4.55% 17
North East +34 12 £69,500 +26.36% 20
Northern Ireland +5 6 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 225 (39.40%) JavaScript
2 200 (35.03%) C#
3 197 (34.50%) .NET
4 184 (32.22%) React
5 176 (30.82%) Agile
6 164 (28.72%) Azure
7 153 (26.80%) HTML
8 148 (25.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 147 (25.74%) AWS
10 144 (25.22%) SQL
11 139 (24.34%) TypeScript
12 119 (20.84%) DevOps
13 117 (20.49%) Social Skills
14 113 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (18.74%) CSS
16 104 (18.21%) Git
16 104 (18.21%) CI/CD
17 98 (17.16%) SQL Server
18 96 (16.81%) Node.js
19 88 (15.41%) Docker
20 85 (14.89%) PHP
20 85 (14.89%) Finance
21 81 (14.19%) Microservices
22 77 (13.49%) MVC
23 74 (12.96%) .NET Core
24 73 (12.78%) Serverless
25 71 (12.43%) ASP.NET
26 69 (12.08%) User Experience
26 69 (12.08%) Test Automation
27 67 (11.73%) Java

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.33%) Confluence
2 15 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.28%) CMS
4 6 (1.05%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.05%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) IIS
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.53%) WordPress
8 2 (0.35%) Apache
8 2 (0.35%) Strapi
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 15 (2.63%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.75%) Magento
2 10 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 164 (28.72%) Azure
2 147 (25.74%) AWS
3 73 (12.78%) Serverless
4 48 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (7.71%) SaaS
6 42 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (7.36%) GCP
7 39 (6.83%) GitHub
8 35 (6.13%) Power Platform
9 17 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 17 (2.98%) Azure Functions
9 17 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (2.45%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.58%) Figma
12 9 (1.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 8 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.23%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.58%) HTTP
1 9 (1.58%) Internet
2 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.35%) Modbus
3 2 (0.35%) MQTT
3 2 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.18%) Broadband
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
4 1 (0.18%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 65 (11.38%) MySQL
3 37 (6.48%) DynamoDB
4 32 (5.60%) NoSQL
5 26 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (4.38%) OLTP
7 22 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.93%) Power BI
10 9 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.58%) Redis
11 8 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.40%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.23%) Metadata
13 5 (0.88%) Big Data
13 5 (0.88%) Data Hub
13 5 (0.88%) SQL CLR
13 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 104 (18.21%) Git
2 37 (6.48%) JIRA
3 16 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.45%) MagicDraw
5 10 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.58%) NUnit
7 8 (1.40%) GitLab
7 8 (1.40%) JUnit
7 8 (1.40%) webpack
8 7 (1.23%) rollup.js
9 6 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.05%) Selenium
9 6 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.88%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.70%) Gradle
11 4 (0.70%) Maven
11 4 (0.70%) Mockito
General
1 117 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.89%) Finance
3 33 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.43%) Retail
5 29 (5.08%) Games
6 23 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.50%) Banking
8 18 (3.15%) Marketing
9 12 (2.10%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.93%) Back Office
10 11 (1.93%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.58%) Law
12 8 (1.40%) Automotive
13 4 (0.70%) Legal
14 3 (0.53%) Electronics
15 2 (0.35%) Advertising
15 2 (0.35%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (34.50%) .NET
2 184 (32.22%) React
3 153 (26.80%) HTML
4 107 (18.74%) CSS
5 96 (16.81%) Node.js
6 74 (12.96%) .NET Core
7 71 (12.43%) ASP.NET
8 65 (11.38%) AngularJS
9 51 (8.93%) GraphQL
9 51 (8.93%) RESTful
10 47 (8.23%) Blazor
11 43 (7.53%) XML
12 42 (7.36%) .NET Framework
13 39 (6.83%) REST
13 39 (6.83%) Vue
14 33 (5.78%) Laravel
15 25 (4.38%) HTML5
16 24 (4.20%) Jest
17 23 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (4.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.41%) Mobile App
2 29 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.58%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.23%) IoT
8 6 (1.05%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.53%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.53%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.53%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.50%) Android
2 16 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 15 (2.63%) Linux
4 12 (2.10%) Windows
5 8 (1.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (30.82%) Agile
2 148 (25.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 119 (20.84%) DevOps
4 113 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (18.21%) CI/CD
6 81 (14.19%) Microservices
7 77 (13.49%) MVC
8 69 (12.08%) Test Automation
8 69 (12.08%) User Experience
9 65 (11.38%) Front End Development
10 64 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 63 (11.03%) Clean Code
12 62 (10.86%) Mentoring
13 55 (9.63%) Unit Testing
14 54 (9.46%) Web Development
15 46 (8.06%) E-Commerce
16 44 (7.71%) UX Design
17 43 (7.53%) OOP
18 40 (7.01%) Kanban
18 40 (7.01%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 225 (39.40%) JavaScript
2 200 (35.03%) C#
3 144 (25.22%) SQL
4 139 (24.34%) TypeScript
5 85 (14.89%) PHP
6 67 (11.73%) Java
7 52 (9.11%) Python
8 31 (5.43%) C++
9 29 (5.08%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.10%) C
12 10 (1.75%) Go
13 9 (1.58%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.23%) Bicep
14 7 (1.23%) Objective-C
14 7 (1.23%) Ruby
15 5 (0.88%) Bash
16 4 (0.70%) VB
17 3 (0.53%) Dart
17 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (10.86%) Degree
2 31 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.35%) PhD
9 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.28%) QA
3 6 (1.05%) WCAG
4 2 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.18%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 88 (15.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) Firmware
4 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.80%) Terraform
3 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.05%) Grafana
5 5 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.13%) Oracle
3 13 (2.28%) Xamarin
4 12 (2.10%) New Relic
5 10 (1.75%) Twitter
6 9 (1.58%) Adobe
6 9 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.05%) Google
8 5 (0.88%) VMware
9 4 (0.70%) IBM
9 4 (0.70%) Rollbar
10 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.35%) Apple
11 2 (0.35%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.35%) Databricks
11 2 (0.35%) Okta
11 2 (0.35%) Pega
11 2 (0.35%) Spotify
12 1 (0.18%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.18%) UiPath